Hmmm...OP's handle is carpboy, so it is pretty likely that carpwife would be his wife. And context would lead me to believe that sprog is someone traveling with her, probably related to them, which makes it either a parent or child.

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To the OP, I've had agents give me terrible trouble with protecting me on later flights recently, generally being unwilling to do it, despite the fact tha tthey know they can. I had one tell me they "don't ever do that for anyone" and then the next agent 3 minutes later tell me that the firt agent probably just saw the flight was sold out so they couldn't make it happen and didn't know why. He was able to protect me kn othe first flight the next morning no problem, though it ended up not being necessary.

Unless you think that there are a lot of people who are also going to misconnect onto the later flight, causing it to have no room for you, making the call too early can backfire, especially when the CSRs aren't paying attention and/or misunderstand your intentions, which is sadly what happened to your wife.